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Airy Common

Airy has 6 different meanings across 2 categories:

Adjective · Proper Noun

Definitions
Adjective
1

open to or abounding in fresh air

"airy rooms"

2

not practical or realizable; speculative

"airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"

"visionary schemes for getting rich"

3

having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air

"airy gauze curtains"

4

characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air

"figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"

"aerial fancies"

"an airy apparition"

"physical rather than ethereal forms"

5

Consisting of air.

"The balloon floated upward because it was filled with an airy mixture of helium and nitrogen."

Proper Noun
1

A surname​.

"The local news reported that the Airy family had won the community garden contest again."

Example Sentences
"airy rooms" adjective
"airy theories about socioeconomic improvement" adjective
"visionary schemes for getting rich" adjective
"airy gauze curtains" adjective
"figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away" adjective
"aerial fancies" adjective
"an airy apparition" adjective
"physical rather than ethereal forms" adjective
Related Terms
Rhyming Words
wiry miry dairy spiry vairy lairy hairy fairy squiry glairy expiry inquiry enquiry acquiry nonhairy nondairy quagmiry antidairy megadairy coinquiry
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